Re: "Preproduction" car on ebay?

["therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, Ian Stewart <istewart@xxxx> wrote:
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> The auction says, and I quote:
> 
> Very rare car, preproduction unit chassis #20. Excellent 
condition. 
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> The exterior photos look exactly like a production car (other 
than the 
> fact that it's black), so is this just embellishment?
> 
> Ian Stewart

The only thing that I can see that indicates that this was a lower 
production car is the early type throttle spool. Althogh the lack of 
a factory VIN plate on the door sill is quite evident. It appears to 
be an assigned VIN #. So, there's one of 2 possible senarios 
here: 1. This was a "black" car that the workers practiced and 
trained on. So the panels were painted seperately, then added 
on. or 2. This was a wrecked car, painted to conceal damage, 
and in the process it had it's VIN# removed. The only way to try 
and find out would be to remove the headliners & check for 
VIN#'s.

Just a thought...

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"